Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korьcь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *korà +‎ *-ьcь.

Noun

*kòrьcь or *korь̀cь m

1. a thing made of bark for measure

Declension

According to the Dybo’s system, the form belongs to the accent type B and to the accent curve variant B^b.

Declension of *korь̀cь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korь̀cь	*korьcà	*korьcì
genitive	*korьcà	*korьcù	*korь̀cь
dative	*korьcù	*korьcèma	*korь̀cemъ
accusative	*korь̀cь	*korьcà	*korьcę̇̀
instrumental	*korьcь̀mь, *korьcèmь*	*korьcèma	*korь̀ci
locative	*korьcì	*korьcù	*korь̀cixъ
vocative	*korьče	*korьcà	*korьcì

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: корьць (korĭcĭ), корець (korecĭ)
    • Old Belarusian: корец (korec)
      • Belarusian: карэ́ц (karéc), корец (kórjec), ко́рац (kórac); корэ́ц (koréc) (dialectal)
    • Russian: коре́ц (koréc) (dialectal)
    • Old Ukrainian: корецъ (korecʹ)
      • Ukrainian: коре́ць (korécʹ), кіре́ць (kirécʹ); коре́ц (koréc), ко́риц (kóryc), ко́рец (kórec) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: корьць (korĭcĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⱁⱃⱐⱌⱐ (korĭcĭ)

    • Bulgarian: ко́ръц (kórǎc) (dialectal)
    • Church Slavonic: корьць (korĭcĭ), корець (korecĭ) (Russian)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̀рац; корац, корец (dated, dialectal)

    Latin script: kòrac; kоraс, kоreс (dated, dialectal)

  • Slovene: kórəc (tonal orthography); kоràс (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kоřес
    • Czech: kоrес
  • Polabian: ťörăc
  • Old Polish: korzec
    • Polish: korzec; kᵘ̯ožec, kоř́ес (dialectal)
  • Slovak: kоrес
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kórc
    • Upper Sorbian: kórc

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*korьcь I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 128